Google said Today it will invest in natural gas power plants in Illinois that account for the majority of carbon emissions.
The 400-megawatt power plant will be built outside Decatur next to Daniels Midland’s (ADM) ethanol plant, which has acquired co2 from operational. Google will buy most of the electricity to power nearby data centers, while ADM will use some of the plant’s steam and electricity. Low Carbon Infrastructure is developing new projects.
Google wants to hold “about 90%” of the co2 made by the power plant, the company said.
Carbon dioxide from Google’s power plants will be injected into the same geological storage formations already used by ATM’s ethanol facility. The site is a Co. location2 Good storage in the US
Usually, about 2,000 metric tons of co2 sent to the well every day. But the injection was in 2024 when the salty brine, which contained CO2 in the atmosphere, was found to have moved into the “unauthorized zone,” according to the EPA. Adm said the leak was a result of corrosion in the monitoring well, E & E reportedand he had called for an injection.
While carbon capture and storage (CCS) shows promise for reducing carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and field-mixed plants.
A Recent Research Of the 13 CC facilities representing 55% of all carbon events the most captured are the most favorable for expectations. ExxonMobil’s facility in Wyoming, which processes natural gas, has taken 36% less than expected. The most analogous to the Google project, the 115-megawatt power plant in Canada, only achieved 50% of what was promised.
CCS, if possible, can help reduce pollution from burning natural gas to generate power, but it will do nothing to solve the methane leaks that occur throughout the gas supply chain. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, producing 84 times more warming over 20 years than carbon dioxide.
As a result, leakage may change carbon accounting. With a leakage rate of only 2%, it burns unburnt gas on par with coalSee rank-. Carbon capture will reduce that figure, but it cannot eliminate the warming created by transporting and transporting natural gas.